# Aid agencies campaign for increase in overseas aid

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/29/aid-agencies-campaign-increase-overseas-aid/
- Published: 2004-03-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Major UK aid agencies are calling on the chancellor Gordon Brown to spend 0.7% of
income on aid – a promise, made in 1970, which Britain has failed to keep.
Thea 
agencies, including ActionAid, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Save the Children, UNICEF UK,
War on Want and the development network BOND warn that, with current levels of funding,
all eight of the Millennium Development Goals aimed at halving world poverty by 
2015 risk being missed.

Mike Aaronson, Director General of Save the Children and Chair of the British Overseas
Aid Group (BOAG) said: “Across the world 600 million children live in poverty, yet
the UK spends just 0.3 pence in every pound it earns on overseas aid. This is simply
not good enough. We need urgent action from the UK to allocate 0.7 per cent of its
wealth to overseas aid by 2008.”

The campaign to increase overseas aid expenditure is backed by 290 charities with
more than three million supporters. The charities will be asking supporters to send
campaign postcards to Mr Brown asking him to announce a timetable to reach the 0.7%
level by 2008.

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